With photos like this I always wonder if they’re accurate depictions or staged by the photographer/anthropologist?
I mean, other than having them pose for a shot, these are all real aspects of Aboriginal material culture, so I don’t imagine that there’s much staging to be done.
“Yo this stuff neat as hell. You guys you want to pose for me with these weapons real quick? I want to show the folks back home” (but said in a more racist, condescending manner, and through a translator)
“Fuck it, I’ve got a free hour or so.”
Weapon vs boat paddle that the woman is holding? At first it seems like a paddle because the object is so long but the shaft is comparably short like it’s meant to be swung.
Department
Africa, Oceania and the Americas
🤣😂😭
The “Not Europe, Not Asia” category. Very precise, very exacting standards for what regions go there
You know old bean, places where all the *[redacted extremely offensive and hilariously outdated slur]*s come from.
Maybe their boats are low sided and these individuals aren’t very tall. I’ll have to look into it when I have more service. Cool picture. Crazy these people have been living down there continuously for so long.
An earlier design for clothes with pockets.
That oar thing is a club, wouldn’t want to be hit by that.
But what’s the dinosaur tooth looking thing that the guy if holding on the right?
Looks like a shield or bracer of some sort.
Yeah its a shield.
Permission to be wrong, do not correct me. Shields made lf dinosaur teeth is bad ass as fuck. Cool people.
